Methods and apparatus for analysing and/or pre-processing financial accounting data

US9031873B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Future Route Limited · GB

Inventors

• Rupert Parson · London, GB
• Andrew Shuttlewood · Sevenoaks, GB
• Andrew Eric Dunn · Sunnyvale, US
• Alan Hambrook · Fréjus, FR

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 7, 2008
• Grant date: May 12, 2015
• Expiry date: Jun 19, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q40/10
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In an on-line method of analyzing financial accounting data, uploaded financial accounting data is received at a server (2) from a client computer (3). The data is analyzed at the server (2) to identify anomalies in the data. A display is provided at the client computer (3) representing the anomalies that have been identified. Further, in a method of pre-processing financial accounting data prior to analyzis of the data, the financial accounting data is abstracted to correspond to a pre-stored accounting ontology. Further, in a method of analyzing financial accounting data, the method checks the data for violation of a particular state to identify inconsistent combinations of values in the data.